Standards Can Help Manage Big Data

February 24, 2012 / Melody Smith /

Between buzzwords like “cloud” and “big data”, it is hard to see through the mirage of mobile devices and social networks let alone analyze or store the data it produces.

Government Computer News brought this topic to our attention in their article, “What you need to know about big data.” It has been estimated that Wal-Mart records more than 1 million customer transactions each hour. This amazing statistics results in more than 2.5 petabytes of data being produced and stored. This is equivalent to 167 times the data stored in the Library Congress. You start talking about Facebook or YouTube and the numbers multiple.

So what do we do with all that data? This is where standards can be of benefit. The Open Group recently announced the availability of two new industry standards that enable businesses to embrace elements of service oriented architecture and cloud computing.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

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